# List of Tour de France Grands Départs

The Tour de France is an annual road bicycle race held over 23days in July. Established in 1903 by newspaper L'Auto, the Tour is the most well-known and prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours"; the others are the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España. The race usually covers approximately 3,500 kilometres (2,200mi), passing through France and neighbouring countries such as Belgium. The race is broken into day-long segments, called stages. Individual finishing times for each stage are totalled to determine the overall winner at the end of the race.
The course changes every year, almost always finishing in Paris; since 1975 (except for 2024) it has finished along the Champs-Élysées. The start of the course is known as the Grand Départ. Since the 1950s it has typically taken place in a different town each year, and since the 1970s it has been common to award the Grand Départ to cities outside France as a way of increasing international interest in the competition and the sport. In all, the Grand Départ has occurred outside France 26 times: 13 times in the Low Countries, 4 times in Germany, and 9 times elsewhere. The right to host the Grand Départ is now highly sought after, with cities bidding to host, and has been shown to increase economic activity as well as interest in cycling in the host area.
In 2024, the first Grand Départ outside France for the Tour de France Femmes took place in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands.

## Host cities
### Tour de France

Tour de France Grands Départs hosts :
| Year | Country | Region | Grand Départ host |
| 1903 | France | Île-de-France | Montgeron |
| 1904 | France | Île-de-France | Montgeron |
| 1905 | France | Île-de-France | Noisy-le-Grand |
| 1906 | France | Île-de-France | Neuilly-sur-Seine (Vélodrome Buffalo) |
| 1907 | France | Île-de-France | Neuilly-sur-Seine (Pont Bineau) |
| 1908 | France | Île-de-France | Neuilly-sur-Seine (Pont Bineau) |
| 1909 | France | Île-de-France | Neuilly-sur-Seine (Pont de la Jatte) |
| 1910 | France | Île-de-France | Neuilly-sur-Seine (Pont de la Jatte) |
| 1911 | France | Île-de-France | Neuilly-sur-Seine (Pont de la Jatte) |
| 1912 | France | Île-de-France | Paris (Luna Park Porte Maillot) |
| 1913 | France | Île-de-France | Boulogne-Billancourt |
| 1914 | France | Île-de-France | Saint-Cloud |
| 1915 | — | — | — |
| 1916 | — | — | — |
| 1917 | — | — | — |
| 1918 | — | — | — |
| 1919 | France | Île-de-France | Paris (Parc des Princes) |
| 1920 | France | Île-de-France | Argenteuil |
| 1921 | France | Île-de-France | Argenteuil |
| 1922 | France | Île-de-France | Paris (Luna Park Porte Maillot) |
| 1923 | France | Île-de-France | Paris (Luna Park Porte Maillot) |
| 1924 | France | Île-de-France | Paris (Luna Park Porte Maillot) |
| 1925 | France | Île-de-France | Le Vésinet |
| 1926 | France | Rhône-Alpes | Évian-les-Bains |
| 1927 | France | Île-de-France | Le Vésinet |
| 1928 | France | Île-de-France | Le Vésinet |
| 1929 | France | Île-de-France | Le Vésinet |
| 1930 | France | Île-de-France | Le Vésinet |
| 1931 | France | Île-de-France | Le Vésinet |
| 1932 | France | Île-de-France | Le Vésinet |
| 1933 | France | Île-de-France | Le Vésinet |
| 1934 | France | Île-de-France | Le Vésinet |
| 1935 | France | Île-de-France | Le Vésinet |
| 1936 | France | Île-de-France | Le Vésinet |
| 1937 | France | Île-de-France | Le Vésinet |
| 1938 | France | Île-de-France | Le Vésinet |
| 1939 | France | Île-de-France | Le Vésinet |
| 1940 | — | — | — |
| 1941 | — | — | — |
| 1942 | — | — | — |
| 1943 | — | — | — |
| 1944 | — | — | — |
| 1945 | — | — | — |
| 1946 | — | — | — |
| 1947 | France | Île-de-France | Paris |
| 1948 | France | Île-de-France | Paris |
| 1949 | France | Île-de-France | Paris |
| 1950 | France | Île-de-France | Paris |
| 1951 | France | Lorraine | Metz |
| 1952 | France | Brittany | Brest |
| 1953 | France | Alsace | Strasbourg |
| 1954 | Netherlands | North Holland | Amsterdam |
| 1955 | France | Upper Normandy | Le Havre |
| 1956 | France | Champagne-Ardenne | Reims |
| 1957 | France | Pays de la Loire | Nantes |
| 1958 | Belgium | Brussels-Capital Region | Brussels |
| 1959 | France | Alsace | Mulhouse |
| 1960 | France | Nord-Pas-de-Calais | Lille |
| 1961 | France | Upper Normandy | Rouen |
| 1962 | France | Lorraine | Nancy |
| 1963 | France | Île-de-France | Paris |
| 1964 | France | Brittany | Rennes |
| 1965 | West Germany | North Rhine-Westphalia | Cologne |
| 1966 | France | Lorraine | Nancy |
| 1967 | France | Pays de la Loire | Angers |
| 1968 | France | Lorraine | Vittel |
| 1969 | France | Nord-Pas-de-Calais | Roubaix |
| 1970 | France | Limousin | Limoges |
| 1971 | France | Alsace | Mulhouse |
| 1972 | France | Pays de la Loire | Angers |
| 1973 | Netherlands | South Holland | Scheveningen |
| 1974 | France | Brittany | Brest |
| 1975 | Belgium | Wallonia | Charleroi |
| 1976 | France | Pays de la Loire | Saint-Jean-de-Monts |
| 1977 | France | Midi-Pyrénées | Fleurance |
| 1978 | Netherlands | South Holland | Leiden |
| 1979 | France | Midi-Pyrénées | Fleurance |
| 1980 | West Germany | Hesse | Frankfurt |
| 1981 | France | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | Nice |
| 1982 | Switzerland | Basel-Stadt | Basel |
| 1983 | France | Île-de-France | Fontenay-sous-Bois |
| 1984 | France | Île-de-France | Montreuil |
| 1985 | France | Brittany | Plumelec |
| 1986 | France | Île-de-France | Boulogne-Billancourt |
| 1987 | West Germany | West Berlin | West Berlin |
| 1988 | France | Pays de la Loire | Pontchâteau |
| 1989 | Luxembourg | Luxembourg District | Luxembourg City |
| 1990 | France | Poitou-Charentes | Futuroscope |
| 1991 | France | Rhône-Alpes | Lyon |
| 1992 | Spain | Basque Country | San Sebastián |
| 1993 | France | Pays de la Loire | Le Puy du Fou |
| 1994 | France | Nord-Pas-de-Calais | Lille |
| 1995 | France | Brittany | Saint-Brieuc |
| 1996 | Netherlands | North Brabant | 's-Hertogenbosch |
| 1997 | France | Upper Normandy | Rouen |
| 1998 | Ireland | Leinster | Dublin |
| 1999 | France | Pays de la Loire | Le Puy du Fou |
| 2000 | France | Poitou-Charentes | Futuroscope |
| 2001 | France | Nord-Pas-de-Calais | Dunkirk |
| 2002 | Luxembourg | Luxembourg District | Luxembourg City |
| 2003 | France | Île-de-France | Paris |
| 2004 | Belgium | Wallonia | Liège |
| 2005 | France | Pays de la Loire | Challans |
| 2006 | France | Alsace | Strasbourg |
| 2007 | United Kingdom | Greater London | London |
| 2008 | France | Brittany | Brest |
| 2009 | Monaco | Monaco | Monaco |
| 2010 | Netherlands | South Holland | Rotterdam |
| 2011 | France | Pays de la Loire | Passage du Gois |
| 2012 | Belgium | Wallonia | Liège |
| 2013 | France | Corsica | Porto-Vecchio |
| 2014 | United Kingdom | Yorkshire | Leeds |
| 2015 | Netherlands | Utrecht | Utrecht |
| 2016 | France | Normandy | Mont Saint-Michel |
| 2017 | Germany | North Rhine-Westphalia | Düsseldorf |
| 2018 | France | Pays de la Loire | Noirmoutier-en-l'Île |
| 2019 | Belgium | Brussels-Capital Region | Brussels |
| 2020 | France | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | Nice |
| 2021 | France | Brittany | Brest |
| 2022 | Denmark | Capital Region of Denmark | Copenhagen |
| 2023 | Spain | Basque Country | Bilbao |
| 2024 | Italy | Tuscany | Florence |
| 2025 | France | Hauts-de-France | Lille |
| 2026 | Spain | Catalonia | Barcelona |

### Tour de France Femmes

| Year | Country | Region | Grand Départ host |
| 2022 | France | Île-de-France | Paris |
| 2023 | France | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | Clermont-Ferrand |
| 2024 | Netherlands | South Holland | Rotterdam |
| 2025 | France | Brittany | Vannes |

## Countries that have hosted the Grands Départ

Countries that have hosted the Grands Départ :
| No. | Country | Cities |
| 6 | Netherlands | s-Hertogenbosch, Amsterdam, Leiden, Rotterdam, Scheveningen, Utrecht |
| 5 | Belgium | Brussels (2), Liège (2), Charleroi |
| 4 | Germany inc. West Germany | Cologne, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, West Berlin |
| 2 | Luxembourg | Luxembourg City (2) |
| 2 | Spain | Barcelona (future), Bilbao, San Sebastian |
| 2 | United Kingdom | Leeds, London |
| 1 | Denmark | Copenhagen |
| 1 | Ireland | Dublin |
| 1 | Italy | Florence |
| 1 | Monaco | Monte Carlo |
| 1 | Switzerland | Basel |